did anyone else meet their lifelong friends through this profession? I met my lifelong best friends through the Navy and wouldn't have it any other way

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I wouldn't say my lifelong friends, because my childhood friends are my first friends, but I would say that I knew friends for the rest of my life.

A navy is a beautiful place if you treat it well, I will treat you well, take that for granted, it is one of the most common things of all, but that does not mean that it is the most beautiful to be able to make friends who are basically your brothers.

Do you know that I have a curious story about this? During the training a colleague and I got together a lot and we always said that we only needed to share blood, 9 years later I had to have an emergency operation and I was in need of emergency donors because of my blood type which is complicated, my friend and I have the same blood and one of my donors was him, now we are not only career brothers, we are also blood brothers.

Being able to trust your back or your path to someone is difficult, the navy allows you to trust people without looking at race, color, or culture, you just look the human in the face and follow him or take care of him, it is something that the world should live.

In the navy, I not only met my friends for life, but I also met the one who would be the mother of my 4 children, the love of my life, and the person who I am sure can defend me in any problem I have, it is my wife and my best support in life.

I absolutely agree that meeting lifelong friends through this profession is a common occurrence. I have made some of my best friends through the Navy, and I wouldn't have it any other way. We have shared some amazing experiences together and I know that we will be friends for life.

I'm not sure if I would call them "lifelong" friends, but I certainly don't regret meeting them through my job in the Navy.

The older I get, the harder I find it to relate to people who don't have a military background.

Same. All my friends are military except a couple guys from highschool. It's a problem...I'm tired of talking about the job outside of the job.

I meet many lifelong friends

I met my best friend and my husband through the military.

Yes. Probably the most fun I've had with people was being in the military.

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